View Full Version : was opening night 69 filmed?
jason7890
10-09-2005, 12:22 PM
would rca really let a occasion like this go by completly unrecorded either by way of a audio or visual source?
Raised on Rock
10-09-2005, 01:48 PM
As far as I know there is no pro videos taken durnig the whole season, but I?ve seen some amateur video shots; on one of the Great Performances Videos, (dont remember which volume but is the one which has the American Trylogy video secuence) you can see a 3 seconds or so video shot from the '69 season.
There?s a bootleg Cd which has the complete opening night.
P.S. Wasnt the Pink and Blue stage colors so cool! I think were the best ever used followed by the stage used on summer '74
Jungleroom76
10-09-2005, 02:57 PM
First Jason7890, let me take this opportunity to welcome you to the TCB-World Forum!! We're glad you have joined our TCB-World family and we hope you like it here! (y)
There is a video with fan-shot footage on it which is supposedly from the 7/31/69 Opening Night performance, but like so many other fan-shot videos, it is hard to tell if that is the actual performance that is on the video! The footage (at least the footage I have seen) is quite poor in quality with no sound (on the video, sound has been dubbed on with the silent video), so while the footage is definitely from the first Las Vegas engagement in 1969, whether it is actually the 7/31/69 show is unclear! :hmm:
There are also conflicting reports on the import CD entitled OPENING NIGHT 1969 that is out there....while the CD claims to the actual 7/31/69 show, some sources have said the show on the CD is actually from 8/1/69. Again, I don't know if it has ever been determined which show is actually contained on this CD, but it may not be the 7/31 show. Confused yet?? :blink:
Sorry I can't really give you a clear-cut answer on this...there is just too much uncertainty surrounding the video/audio that is out there supposedly from this show! But I can tell you with 100% certainty that, at least as far as we know, RCA did not record the show and there is no professional video of the show out there (I say "as far as we know" because there is always a chance that something could turn up!)
TCB!
Mike
0349054
10-09-2005, 03:12 PM
would rca really let a occasion like this go by completly unrecorded either by way of a audio or visual source?
In a word.... yes!
I have seen the 69 8mm fan film and it is like watching a shadow with an occasional better focus and picture. I'm sure its many generations removed from the original. I hope whoever has the original footage is keeping it well preserved
so some day a better version will surface.
Leroy
10-09-2005, 04:47 PM
There's only one way to tell if the recorded footage is from 31/7; by the clothes Elvis is wearing. During the opening night he wasn't wearing the famous karate outfit but the same black two-piece he also wore during the press conference of August 1st including the same scarf. If the footage is clear enough.....
Jungleroom76
10-09-2005, 06:05 PM
The '69 footage that I have seen is so fuzzy, out of focus and shot from such a distance that aside from being able to tell Elvis is wearing something black, you can't really see enough to tell what color scarf Elvis is wearing, or if he is even wearing one!! :blink:
Has anyone seen any better '69 footage?? Perhaps someone else has seen some better footage so they can give us a bit more information on this... :hmm:
TCB!
Mike
tcbtigerman
10-10-2005, 01:18 AM
There's '69 footage that has been remastered and cleaned up really really nicely on a Dvd called 'Adrenaline'.The best footage from '69 ive ever seen
Leroy
10-10-2005, 01:49 AM
That's right. I have seen that footage but it's taken from a reasonable distance and the figure on stage is very small. But on that footage you can see that's it's not the July 31st performance. He's wearing his "Black Cossack Top Two-piece" so that must be August.
On the other hand it's my experience that just as you are willing to except the fact that some things just do not exist someone comes up with good quality stuff that make you eat your socks. To give an example; no one ever believed that Elvis wore the black jumpsuit with gold trim that was on display at Graceland for quit a time. For years we've been hoping but nothing happened. Until recently one faded picture turned up of Elvis wearing the **** thing. But one picture was all we needed.
1100ccRider
10-10-2005, 05:21 AM
The "Opening Night" CD is definitely not from opening night, or probably even the first 'regular' show (August 1), but it is most likely from the first week. The general consensus seems to be that it's the August 3 dinner show.
I own several "7/31/69" tapes because finding a recording of this show was always my Holy Grail. None are the actual show. In fact, the '69 shows circulated for years on tape are very confusing (as are many other such tapes, the 8/70 shows also being particularly bad), because they've so often been mislabeled and very frequently sold (or, as time went on, traded) as being several different shows. Some unscrupulous SOBs deliberately edited tapes or even changed sound quality just to come up with a 'new' show.
The very first tape I bought, 20 or 25 years ago (funny how time slips away), was supposedly an August 3 show but it turns out to be what is usually sold as an 8/6 show, but with "What'd I Say" edited out. One of my 7/31/69 opening shows was also sold to me (by the same person) as the 8/1/69 MS and was the same tape I later received as the 8/25/69 MS, this latter perhaps even the actual right date. The last tape I bought that was alleged to be the opening show was the soundboard that Fort Baxter later released -- a revelation, because it was the first soundboard tpae I'd heard and I hadn't even known, beyond occasional rumors, that such things existed. So no real surprise that the Fort Baxter release is misdated.
I know it's not the 7/31 show because contemporary accounts of that concert concur on the songs that Elvis did that night. I can't recall, offhand (my notes are in storage in another state), but I know "That's All Right" and "Johnny Be Goode" were supposedly performed and I think "One Night" was mentioned, too. I spent a lot of time poring through microfiche newspaper articles in the basement of a California university, back in the early '90s, looking for reviews of Elvis concerts from around the US, and found plenty of stories about the opening night in '69. So it's well documented but, alas, perhaps we'll never see it. It was rumored to have been recorded and in the Colonel's possession, and I vaguely recall a rumor that it would be on the "Elvis Aron Presley" box set in 1980, but I believe that Joan Deary cleared the Forst Baxter '69 show for release and so maybe that's the tape that everyone was whispering about.
As for the video, Ive seen various dates ascribed to the footage that I have. Again, fan-shot video has always been a problem, too, and it's common to buy (or trade) for the same footage under several different alleged dates. Similarly -- and I think I know who the major culprit has been -- sometimes dates have obviously just been made up. It's not uncommon for a video segment to be so heinously misdated that even the year is wrong.
I can't recall what dates I first saw on the two '69 clips that I've got. They were available as 8mm film copies 25 years ago and were presumably closer to the source, and I vaguely recal one of them allegedly being from opening night (actually, I kinda recall "July 26, 1969," a date that more than one author has somehow put on Elvis' Vegas opening). So that's no help. More recently I've seen them dated 8/12 and 8/14. Pulled from thin air? Who knows?
Tommy
10-10-2005, 09:48 AM
It sure is a shame this opening night show wasn't professionally record. :sad:
Tommy :)
nabelt24
11-03-2005, 01:23 AM
What is the original song list for the TRUE opening show??? Do we really know???
hgs262626
06-24-2008, 01:36 PM
What is the original song list for the TRUE opening show??? Do we really know???
try the concert database on elviscrawler
hgs262626
06-24-2008, 01:37 PM
The "Opening Night" CD is definitely not from opening night, or probably even the first 'regular' show (August 1), but it is most likely from the first week. The general consensus seems to be that it's the August 3 dinner show.
I own several "7/31/69" tapes because finding a recording of this show was always my Holy Grail. None are the actual show. In fact, the '69 shows circulated for years on tape are very confusing (as are many other such tapes, the 8/70 shows also being particularly bad), because they've so often been mislabeled and very frequently sold (or, as time went on, traded) as being several different shows. Some unscrupulous SOBs deliberately edited tapes or even changed sound quality just to come up with a 'new' show.
The very first tape I bought, 20 or 25 years ago (funny how time slips away), was supposedly an August 3 show but it turns out to be what is usually sold as an 8/6 show, but with "What'd I Say" edited out. One of my 7/31/69 opening shows was also sold to me (by the same person) as the 8/1/69 MS and was the same tape I later received as the 8/25/69 MS, this latter perhaps even the actual right date. The last tape I bought that was alleged to be the opening show was the soundboard that Fort Baxter later released -- a revelation, because it was the first soundboard tpae I'd heard and I hadn't even known, beyond occasional rumors, that such things existed. So no real surprise that the Fort Baxter release is misdated.
I know it's not the 7/31 show because contemporary accounts of that concert concur on the songs that Elvis did that night. I can't recall, offhand (my notes are in storage in another state), but I know "That's All Right" and "Johnny Be Goode" were supposedly performed and I think "One Night" was mentioned, too. I spent a lot of time poring through microfiche newspaper articles in the basement of a California university, back in the early '90s, looking for reviews of Elvis concerts from around the US, and found plenty of stories about the opening night in '69. So it's well documented but, alas, perhaps we'll never see it. It was rumored to have been recorded and in the Colonel's possession, and I vaguely recall a rumor that it would be on the "Elvis Aron Presley" box set in 1980, but I believe that Joan Deary cleared the Forst Baxter '69 show for release and so maybe that's the tape that everyone was whispering about.
As for the video, Ive seen various dates ascribed to the footage that I have. Again, fan-shot video has always been a problem, too, and it's common to buy (or trade) for the same footage under several different alleged dates. Similarly -- and I think I know who the major culprit has been -- sometimes dates have obviously just been made up. It's not uncommon for a video segment to be so heinously misdated that even the year is wrong.
I can't recall what dates I first saw on the two '69 clips that I've got. They were available as 8mm film copies 25 years ago and were presumably closer to the source, and I vaguely recal one of them allegedly being from opening night (actually, I kinda recall "July 26, 1969," a date that more than one author has somehow put on Elvis' Vegas opening). So that's no help. More recently I've seen them dated 8/12 and 8/14. Pulled from thin air? Who knows?
it is too for me the "holy grail" can you tell me evrything you know on the opening night, my elvis books are currently being borrowed by a friend.
Tony Trout
06-24-2008, 02:21 PM
would rca really let a occasion like this go by completly unrecorded either by way of a audio or visual source?
In a word.... yes!
I'll third that....yes, they would. No opening night footage of July 31, 1969 has ever surfaced. Besides, do we really think that those in attendance would have thought to film this performance? That's one thing that I think everyone is forgetting. Opening night was by invitation only. The general public wasn't allowed into the show that night.
Unchained Melody
06-24-2008, 10:41 PM
IOpening Night 1969 Releaed by fort baxter was actually from the August 3rd 1969 Dinner Show. Not August 1st Tony. ;)
Tony Trout
06-25-2008, 07:57 AM
IOpening Night 1969 Releaed by fort baxter was actually from the August 3rd 1969 Dinner Show. Not August 1st Tony. ;)
I never said that the Fort Baxter "Opening Night" CD was from August 1, 1969......:hmm::doh:
dj_ethan
06-25-2008, 08:30 AM
No Sound, No video From The Opening Night 1969 ? I Can't Believe That !
Tony Trout
06-25-2008, 08:54 AM
No Sound, No video From The Opening Night 1969 ? I Can't Believe That !
I can because the general public didn't attend the show. Only celebrities were there that night. If it had been filmed, it would have surfaced by now. I think we should just be happy with what we do have and not complain about what we don't have (at least, in this instance).
I can because the general public didn't attend the show. Only celebrities were there that night. If it had been filmed, it would have surfaced by now. I think we should just be happy with what we do have and not complain about what we don't have (at least, in this instance).
I have always wondered why Elvis did not have one of his MM film some of the opening-just for his own review of how the show went? He was very concerned with this first engagement in years and had shown much attention to all aspects of the show-it would seem logical to want to actually see how it all came together.
bogarcon
06-25-2008, 12:34 PM
you can see some footage and news clips from the opening night at the Las Vegas Public Labrairie. Some microfiles and now some of it transfered on dvd and computer. The whole thing lat around 3 minutes and that's all!
Have a nice day
Bogarcon
Unchained Melody
06-26-2008, 03:37 AM
I never said that the Fort Baxter "Opening Night" CD was from August 1, 1969......:hmm::doh:
Sorry Tony I mis-read the post :blush:
Unchained Melody
06-26-2008, 03:38 AM
Only celebrities were there that night.).
And family and friends were their..well those who were invited.
Getlo
06-26-2008, 04:17 AM
If it had been filmed, it would have surfaced by now.
Exactly.
Like Madison Square Garden.
Like the other On Tour shows (aside from the four that were actually filmed in full).
... and all of the other "definitely" filmed shows that only seem to pop up on collectors' lists where they say "professionally filmed".
Tony Trout
06-26-2008, 08:00 AM
Sorry Tony I mis-read the post :blush:
It's ok. No harm done. All is well. :)
And family and friends were their..well those who were invited.
But still...for whatever reasons...family and friends didn't think to film him that night...
Exactly.
Like Madison Square Garden.
Like the other On Tour shows (aside from the four that were actually filmed in full).
... and all of the other "definitely" filmed shows that only seem to pop up on collectors' lists where they say "professionally filmed".
Spot on, Gelto. :) (y)
I know the MSG debate about whether it was ever pro filmed has gone on a long time but there is obviously 16mm footage which has surfaced I have posted information about the professional filmaker, Jonas Mekas, who shot it and it is crystal clear. (His use of that footage in his "avant garde" style leaves much to be desired though)
Here are some other clips which have surfaced:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FWyUR7jVlDw&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4fDV1CZUOQ
I noticed the first clip is filmed from the right side and is very very clear
The second clip is filmed from the center or left center and shows shots from the start to the end with arms outstretched. It also has some great close-ups.
I have said this before, whether it is technically pro-footage authorized by Parker or it was shot for newscast purposes and they just kept filming or if it was being televised into the luxury boxes at MSG and taped on the sly-it makes no difference to me. I am not going to worry about the whys and hows of its existence- It is excellent clear footage and I wish it would surface in whole.
Another clip which actually goes longer than the first one into "Proud Mary" but with no sound:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n6gGNYX3b7Q&feature=related
omnipresence
06-26-2008, 02:21 PM
Footage from Elvis' top right is news footage from NBC. Original footage has sound. You can decide to believe me or not, I dont want to get into the usual argument. The end of the story is that it exists is much longer than what you have seen and has sound.
It is very easy to say it dosent exist or that it is not pro when you have not seen it yourself.
Unchained Melody
06-27-2008, 03:50 AM
Footage from Elvis' top right is news footage from NBC. Original footage has sound. You can decide to believe me or not, I dont want to get into the usual argument. The end of the story is that it exists is much longer than what you have seen and has sound.
It is very easy to say it dosent exist or that it is not pro when you have not seen it yourself.
Well judging from the clips above ones just got to believe that footage pro or not is out there somewhere!!!:notworthy:notworthy:hmm:
hgs262626
06-27-2008, 04:48 AM
good point kpm.
hgs262626
06-27-2008, 04:54 AM
Exactly.
Like Madison Square Garden.
Like the other On Tour shows (aside from the four that were actually filmed in full).
... and all of the other "definitely" filmed shows that only seem to pop up on collectors' lists where they say "professionally filmed".
getlo can you help me with this, follow the link, scroll down, once you reach the second picture,
go to the second question below it. the question i want you to read is: Do you remember opening night?
why does ronnie tutt say Rca had a remote truck standing by? im confused!
http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_ronnietutt_by_arjandeelen.shtml
Unchained Melody
06-27-2008, 05:11 AM
why does ronnie tutt say Rca had a remote truck standing by? im confused!
http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_ronnietutt_by_arjandeelen.shtml
I see why you are confused. Maybe Tutt is thinking of another show from taht engagement that RCA taped...:hmm:
Getlo
06-27-2008, 05:28 AM
you can see some footage and news clips from the opening night at the Las Vegas Public Labrairie.
No, you cannot.
The home-movie footage from '69 (which is a total of 20-25 minutes all up) is all from other shows later in the engagement!
Getlo
06-27-2008, 05:31 AM
the question i want you to read is: Do you remember opening night? why does ronnie tutt say Rca had a remote truck standing by? im confused!
If the interviewer was worth their salt, they would have immediately said, "Hold on, Ronnie, did you say that there was a recording truck there on opening night?!"
If the question and answer is reported as originally asked, then Tutt is either misinformed, or he misheard the question. Perhaps he is referring to the opening engagement, in general?
RCA did not record opening night ... which is an enormous tragedy.
Unchained Melody
06-27-2008, 05:32 AM
No, you cannot.
The home-movie footage from '69 (which is a total of 20-25 minutes all up) is all from other shows later in the engagement!
There is much footage in good quality on the Front Row Films 7 dvdset synched with soundboard recordings from the engagement. It's all obviously edited from different shows to make more complete but with the footage being so good and clear its really nice to have.:notworthy
Who knows if we will ever get anything from the REAL opening night on July 31st 1969....:hmm:
If the interviewer was worth their salt, they would have immediately said, "Hold on, Ronnie, did you say that there was a recording truck there on opening night?!"
If the question and answer is reported as originally asked, then Tutt is either misinformed, or he misheard the question. Perhaps he is referring to the opening engagement, in general?
RCA did not record opening night ... which is an enormous tragedy.
Devils advocate question-Are you saying Ronnie Tutt "who was there" if he heard and understood the question correctly and on follow-up said
"No I did see a recording truck on Opening night" you would say he is wrong?
That even if no one else saw the truck-there is no way it could have been there? Remember I'm a never say never kind of guy;)
elvisbootlegs
06-27-2008, 10:14 AM
I see why you are confused. Maybe Tutt is thinking of another show from that engagement that RCA taped...:hmm:
Just remember Tutt recorded all of the mono soundboard shows for his own review (same for Elvis as well) as when my grandparents spoke to Elvis backstage after the 8-24-69 MS show, Elvis, Charlie and Tutt were listening to that nights soundboards. RCA didnt get there with their equipment to record the multi-track shows until 8-21-69, and which ever shows they were not recording, Tutt was. Tutt continued recording the majority of the available (and still not available) soundboard recordings. If you read the Canuck's report of Feb 77 tour, Tutt was still recording these soundboards as Canuck heard him playing the 2-12-77 (i Think) soundboard (still don't have it to this day...)... Anyways, I agree that with the celebrity invitation-only audience of Opening Night nobody would have been filming, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility that Tutt did in fact record that 1st show, as I can only imagine how E and the band would have wanted to hear it......
jon_burrows
06-28-2008, 09:58 AM
it isn't out of the realm of possibility that Tutt did in fact record that 1st show, as I can only imagine how E and the band would have wanted to hear it......
Maybe it isn't out of the realms of possibility. But surely he would know that all of us fans would love to hear that show in full. So, if he did record it why wouldn't he at least say he has a copy and put us all out of our misery?
Getlo
06-28-2008, 10:08 PM
Devils advocate question-Are you saying Ronnie Tutt "who was there" if he heard and understood the question correctly and on follow-up said "No I did see a recording truck on Opening night" you would say he is wrong? That even if no one else saw the truck-there is no way it could have been there? Remember I'm a never say never kind of guy;)
If Ronnie did indeed see a truck on Opening Night, I'm betting it was an ice cream truck! It could have been an equipment truck, food, whatever. If it was there, and Ronnie did indeed see it, it was not a recording truck. Even the RCA archives indicate they were not there that evening.
hgs262626
06-29-2008, 02:08 PM
you can see some footage and news clips from the opening night at the Las Vegas Public Labrairie. Some microfiles and now some of it transfered on dvd and computer. The whole thing lat around 3 minutes and that's all!
Have a nice day
Bogarcon
from the opening night??
Erhan
06-29-2008, 02:55 PM
If Ronnie did indeed see a truck on Opening Night, I'm betting it was an ice cream truck! It could have been an equipment truck, food, whatever. If it was there, and Ronnie did indeed see it, it was not a recording truck. Even the RCA archives indicate they were not there that evening.
Before every RCA live recordings Musicians have to sign some RCA papers so it's very weird explanation from Ronnie Tutt.
If Ronnie did indeed see a truck on Opening Night, I'm betting it was an ]ice cream truck! It could have been an equipment truck, food, whatever. [/B]If it was there, and Ronnie did indeed see it, it was not a recording truck. Even the RCA archives indicate they were not there that evening.
I agree it could have been all those things-but its funny he would see it as a RCA mobile recording unit? Tutt was no stranger to the recording industry and must have seen a few mobile recording outfits in his time. (and a few ice cream trucks)
RCA has been notorious for a lack of good record keeping so it would not surprise me that they have no record of this.(as you say if it happened) I read a few years back on the net that when Sony and BMG merged in 2004 they began to try and unravel some of the information gaps and found a warehouse of recording info, sales information, etc.. which RCA had in storage and did nothing with.
Ernst Jorgenson has said the records of the regular sessions were not always complete-it was not until he began to dig that he began to piece together what RCA had and even then it was not always where it was suppose to be:
Ernst - In the early 90s, I got to know exactly what tapes were in the RCA vaults. And that is still the most fascinating story because nobody knew. There were two things they didn't know. They didn't know what they had and they didn't know what they had lost. So when we eventually established what they had we went in to examine what was lost. There was a guy named Bruce Hailstalk who ran the tape vault, and he was the keeper of the vault in New York. There were vaults in other places, in Nashville, in Indianapolis and in Los Angeles. He was one of those people who kept everything. He had shipping paperwork going way back. He was the one who had to break the news to me that in 1959 the president of RCA Records thought he'd save some money on warehouse spending so he dumped literally ten thousand tapes including the tapes with the outtakes of most of Elvis' Fifties repertoire and even some of the masters. Just to save a buck. That was one headache.
Ernst- Another thing I did with Bruce, even after he left, was to meticulously go over and find every trace of paperwork about tapes that were once at the company but no longer there. I'd try to find out when their paper trail stopped, which would indicate when it got lost and where it could have gotten lost. Sometimes you'd find some stuff at the other vaults. I also had to go outside of the company and find people who were involved at the time. Eventually you find people who knew something about somebody and some of the tapes would turn up again.......
So Getlo taking all these things into consideration I am hopeful perhaps there may still be some things that are still unknown and yet to surface.
Althought the more time that goes by-the less likely that becomes.
Unchained Melody
09-20-2008, 09:04 AM
Thanks for that Steve!
Never seen that photo before, sad theres no chance of that conference being filmed with the camera though...that would be something else.
Getlo
09-20-2008, 06:34 PM
you can see the fella sitting in the middle of the image just above Elvis' right wrist with a video-tube camera on a tripod
There is nothing here that indicates a video camera. It looks just like the other still cameras, only mounted on a tripod.
MojoElvis
09-20-2008, 08:16 PM
would rca really let a occasion like this go by completly unrecorded either by way of a audio or visual source?
I back this comment up cept that, I believe it was recorded for record release and some of it was all ready released by RCA and FTD. As for filming it for a historical event, I don't think there's any professional film of it. I've seen some 8mm videos maybe taped by Elvis himself to see how he looked on stage and work on his act. Quoting, Marty Lacker, he said they didn't have an act at that point.
I can't help but think that the Colonel thought of Elvis as another bad product he was pushing on people. He was of the mindset that, Elvis' music was a passing faze. Also, he did everything cheap. Down to Elvis not even having his own light show after 1973 a lot of the new big performers where using.
It was pretty much ad lib.
Getlo
09-20-2008, 08:23 PM
I back this comment up cept that, I believe it was recorded for record release and some of it was all ready released by RCA and FTD.
What was recorded for release, what do you mean here?
MojoElvis
09-20-2008, 08:24 PM
What was recorded for release, what do you mean here?
Sorry, I meant the audio of the 1969 comeback.
Getlo
09-20-2008, 08:28 PM
Sorry, I meant the audio of the 1969 comeback.
Ok.
Unfortunately, RCA chose not to record until August 21. I'm sure they wanted to give Elvis a chance to work out any kinks in the show.
But surely, even after a couple of nights, they could have seen Elvis was on fire, and sent in the recording crews.
Hang the expense of the tape, too: they should have recorded that very firrst show on July 31 (or at least the first "proper" show the next night). We have missed out on hearing one of the most important musical comebacks ever. And sadly, we'll never hear it.
MojoElvis
09-20-2008, 08:32 PM
Ok.
Unfortunately, RCA chose not to record until August 21. I'm sure they wanted to give Elvis a chance to work out any kinks in the show.
But surely, even after a couple of nights, they could have seen Elvis was on fire, and sent in the recording crews.
Hang the expense of the tape, too: they should have recorded that very firrst show on July 31 (or at least the first "proper" show the next night). We have missed out on hearing one of the most important musical comebacks ever. And sadly, we'll never hear it.
I always thought it was recorded. I have to look into it. Thanks for correcting me if I'm wrong and I totally back up your feelings on the fans and the world missing out on a lot of Elvis' firsts like the Madison Square Garden shows and The 1974 Recorded Live in Memphis Show.
MojoElvis
09-20-2008, 08:39 PM
sorry I was going by my Fort Baxter collection and just found this out about a cd that claimed to have been opening night.
Fort Baxter released the CD OPENING NIGHT but the date written on the cover is wrong. It's not the Opening Night (July 31, 1969) and it's not Aug. 1, 1969 Dinner Show neither. The most accepted date is August 3rd, Dinner Show.
I stand corrected.
utmom2008
09-20-2008, 09:04 PM
Hang the expense of the tape, too: they should have recorded that very firrst show on July 31 (or at least the first "proper" show the next night). We have missed out on hearing one of the most important musical comebacks ever. And sadly, we'll never hear it.
And sadly, since no recordings exist to back it up, it will become a legendary story in the music world in the years to come.:blush::blush::sad:
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